Three Summers

Name: Three Summers
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780241475065
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By Margarita Liberaki

Series: Penguin European Writers

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Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki is a coming-of-age story set in 1930s Greece. It follows three sisters over three summers as they experience the highs and lows of growing up. Capturing the beauty of their rural surroundings and the intricacies of relationships, the novel explores themes of love, family, and the passage of time.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate richly woven tales set in captivating historical periods. It beautifully captures the essence of coming-of-age experiences as three sisters navigate their summers against a vividly described backdrop. Ideal for those interested in themes of family dynamics, personal growth, and the passage of time.

Three Summers

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A gorgeous Greek modern classic about three sisters coming-of-age over the course of three summers, introduced by Polly Samson.

That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as red as fire. . .

Three Summers is a warm and tender tale of three sisters growing up in the countryside near Athens before the Second World War. Living in a ramshackle old house with their divorced mother are flirtatious, hot-headed Maria, beautiful but distant Infanta, and dreamy and rebellious Katerina, through whose eyes the story is mostly observed.

Over three summers, the girls share and keep secrets, fall in and out of love, try to understand the strange ways of adults, and decide what kind of adults they hope to become.

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Three Summers by Margarita Liberaki is highly praised for its evocative depiction of Greek village life, reminiscent of lying in the sun enjoying figs. It is compared to works like Elena Ferrante's, yet noted for being more cheerful. The novel, celebrated for its dreamy, cinematic quality and sensuous prose, elegantly portrays the coming-of-age story of three sisters, resonating with the nostalgic charm akin to Dodie Smith's work. It is described as a modernist gem, full of earthy innocence and playful humour.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241475065

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 July 2021

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Viking

Contributors:

Translated by Karen Van Dyck
Introduction by Polly Samson

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 196g

Pages: 272

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Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Historical Romance Margarita Liberaki Penguin Books Romance Series: Penguin European Writers

About the Author

Karen Van Dyck is the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Classics Department at Columbia University. She writes on Modern Greek and Greek Diaspora literature, and gender and translation theory. Her translations include her edited and co-edited collections- The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding- Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Wesleyan, 1998); A Century of Greek Poetry (Cosmos, 2004); The Scattered Papers of Penelope- New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Graywolf, 2009), a Lannan Translation selection; and The Greek Poets- Homer to the Present (Norton, 2010).